Graphic Design: Designer Brochure

Graphic Design: Designer Brochure

Course: Introduction to Graphic Design For my designer brochure project, I used Adobe InDesign and applied text formatting skills to create a four page brochure with content on 2016 AIGA Medalist, Ruth Ansel. In this design, I referenced text from a biography by James Gaddy. My decisions on fonts, colors and the layout of information [...]

Graphic Design: Font Booklet

Graphic Design: Font Booklet

Course: Introduction to Graphic Design For my font booklet project, I used InDesign to create an eight page booklet comparing a traditional font, Didot, to a Google font, Playfair Display. This design explored the classifications of traditional and screen formatted typefaces through paragraph-length text blocks, specimen pages and diagrams of font features. In this design, [...]

Graphic Design: Monogram and Animal Graphic Icon

Graphic Design: Monogram and Animal Graphic Icon

Course: Introduction to Graphic Design For my monogram project, I used Adobe Illustrator to explore letter combinations using overlapping, intertwining and stacking while maintaining horizontal baselines. Without repeating, rotating or mirroring letters, I rendered a monogram of my initials. This project taught me how to define features of letterforms and counter forms and how to [...]